>>965

>why the hell does Linux need 150MB to start up and release a console to me?

"Linux" doesn't. Parabola does. Maybe Parabola sucks. I dunno. I just checked my Slackware installation:

Without X: 54 MiB
With X & a lightweight window manager: 83 MiB

It could be lower, too, but I am running a number of daemons like ntpd and sshd, and I recompiled those that don't come compiled with hardening flags by default. Usually, that means they take more memory. The tradeoff is better security.

>>990

>Inferno runs on stock Nintendo DS Lite with 4 MB RAM, but it can run on even smaller hardware.

This expands dong. I've always wanted to try Inferno, but never got around to it.